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Westgate Line - Wikipedia

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Westgate

Overview

Owner

Southern Pacific Railroad

Locale

Los Angeles

Termini

Stations

Service

Type

Interurban

System

Pacific Electric

Operator(s)

Pacific Electric

Ridership

263,017 (1926)

History

Opened

1906

Closed

November 18, 1940

Technical

Track gauge

1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in) standard gauge

Old gauge

narrow gauge

Electrification

Overhead line, 600 V DC

Route map

Hill Street Station

J R S

P 9

J 9

Vermont Avenue

Berendo Street siding

Western Avenue

3rd Avenue siding

Vineyard

Venice Short Line

Rosemary

Genesee

Big Barn

Sherman Junction

Alpers

Hollywood

Beverly Hills

Coldwater Canyon

Country Club

Buenos Ayres

High Bridge

Wolfskill

Santa Monica

and Sepulveda

Soldiers' Home

Westgate

Sawtelle

Westgate

Arcadia Street

Brentwood Park

26th Street Santa Monica

Palisades

Sawtelle

Venice Short Line

Santa Monica

The Westgate Line was a suburban route operated by the Pacific Electric Railway from 1911 to 1940. This line was one of four lines connecting Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica that did not run through Hollywood. The line is notable for taking a circuitous route towards its end, along San Vicente Boulevard, mainly because it was built to encourage construction of new homes near Pacific Palisades.

Many riders were veterans and employees of the Soldiers' Home, Sawtelle, stopping at the Streetcar Depot, West Los Angeles.

History

The electrified line was built and operated by the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad, opened in 1906 with narrow gauge rails.^[1] On March 19, 1906, an agreement was reached to sell all the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad lines to Henry Huntington’s Pacific Electric Railway for $6 million (equivalent to $203 million in 2023).^{[citation needed]} The line was converted to standard gauge in early 1908.^[2]^[3]

Service was reduced to a single franchise car by July 1, 1940, with full abandonment following on November 18.^[4]

Route

The Westgate Line followed the Sawtelle Line as far as Sawtelle. From Sawtelle (Santa Monica Boulevard between Purdue and Butler Avenues) the Westgate Line branched northwesterly into an unimproved private way. Dual tracks ran in the center of the private way, across Ohio Avenue, and then along the westerly edge of the U.S. Government Soldier's Home property to a location near Rochester and Butler Avenues.

Here the dual rails entered the grounds of the Soldier's Home and continued north-westerly on private way, across Wilshire Boulevard to enter another section of unimproved private way in the center of San Vicente Boulevard.

The dual tracks followed San Vicente Boulevard, between twin roadways, in a sweeping curve to the west, crossing out of the Soldier's Home property at Bringham Avenue. Continuing in the center of San Vicente Boulevard,^[5] the rails ran west crossing Barrington and Montana Avenues, and Bundy Drive to reach the Santa Monica city limit at 26th Street. Once into Santa Monica the dual tracks, still on private way between twin roadways, ran approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) southwesterly, across the various numbered streets of Santa Monica, to Ocean Avenue. The dual tracks then ran southeasterly in the pavement of Ocean Avenue, crossing the major intersections of Montana Avenue, Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard to reach the terminus of the line, one block farther south at Broadway.

Traffic

Passengers (Fare and Transfer)^[3]
Year	Passengers	Car miles	Revenue
1913	394,283	246,195	$ 30,541
1916	337,709	201,669	19,984
1918	319,991	202,110	20,130
1920	340,953	178,608	22,424
1922	305,325	178,120	23,390
1924	350,688	183,000	27,133
1926	263,017	193,756	31,410

References

This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under the public domain as a work of the State of California. (license statement/permission). Text taken from 1981 Inventory of Pacific Electric Routes, California Department of Transportation. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

^ Schwieterman, Joseph P. (2004). When the Railroad Leaves Town. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. pp. 75–79. ISBN 9781931112130.
^ "Notable feat sharply done". Los Angeles Times. 1 April 1908. p. 23. Retrieved 28 July 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Westgate Line". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California.
^ Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. pp. 80, 82. ASIN B0007F8D84. OCLC 6565577.
^ Nathan Masters, Nathan (21 February 2014). "Many L.A. Boulevards Began as Trolley Lines". KCET. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

Pacific Electric

Routes

Northern Division	Alhambra–San Gabriel Annandale Arlington–Corona Arrowhead Colton Covina East Washington El Monte–Baldwin Park Highland Lamanda Park Monrovia–Glendora Mount Lowe North Lake Pasadena Short Line Pasadena via Oak Knoll Pasadena local lines Pomona Pomona–Claremont Pomona local lines Redlands Redlands local lines Riverside–Arlington Riverside–Rialto San Bernardino–Riverside San Dimas San Dimas Local Shorb Sierra Madre Sierra Vista South Pasadena Local Upland–Ontario Upland–San Antonio Heights Upland–San Bernardino
Western Division	Brush Canyon Coldwater Canyon Echo Park Avenue Edendale Local Glendale–Burbank Hollywood Lankershim–Van Nuys Laurel Canyon Owensmouth Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey San Fernando Santa Monica Air Line Santa Monica local lines Sawtelle Soldiers' Home South Hollywood–Sherman Venice Boulevard Venice–Inglewood Venice–Playa del Rey Venice Short Line Venice via Hollywood Western & Franklin Ave. Westgate
Southern Division	American Avenue Balboa Bellflower Catalina Dock Fullerton Hawthorne–El Nido Hawthorne–El Segundo Huntington Beach–La Bolsa La Habra–Fullerton–Yorba Linda Long Beach Long Beach local lines Long Beach–San Pedro Redondo Beach via Gardena San Pedro local lines San Pedro via Dominguez San Pedro via Gardena Santa Ana Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Santa Ana–Orange Seal Beach–Huntington Beach–Newport Beach Terminal Island Torrance Watts Whittier